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During this night journey I put myself both in feeling and in fact in a blind man's place—the best lesson I ever had to develop deliberation and keenness of touch.
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102
It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.
103
Most of us are afraid of mortification of the body, and would contrive all means to avoid such a thing, but we care not about the soul’s mortification.
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Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man.
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Will you not go back, and you will see clearer when you have laid aside fear?
106
His cheery optimism never failed, even when food was very short and the prospect of relief seemed remote.
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Fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.
108
Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear.
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If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.
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Whats'ever 'appens to you--whats'ever--you'd be a princess all the same--an' nothin' couldn't make you nothin' different.
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Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business: what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness.
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the only thing we have to fear is fear itself
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To balance probabilities, where life and liberty hang on the result, requires steady nerves.
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At times we were almost disposed to give up, and try to content ourselves with our wretched lot; at others, we were firm and unbending in our determination to go.
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The responsibility of success or failure lay heavily upon me.
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The strength of our determination was about to be fully tested.
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One must not avoid one's tests, although they constitute perhaps the most dangerous game one can play, and are in the end tests made only before ourselves and before no other judge.
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One must subject oneself to one's own tests that one is destined for independence and command, and do so at the right time.
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Finally we must have courage and self-confidence to cling to our own methods and conceptions of human society. After all, the greatest danger that can befall us in coping with this problem of Soviet communism, is that we shall allow ourselves to become like those with whom we are coping.
George F. Kennanverified·Telegram from the Chargé in the Soviet Union to the Secretary of State (the Long Telegram)·February 22, 1946
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I have not sought this enormous responsibility, but I will not shirk it.
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Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
122
Every struggle is a victory.
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At the beginning I was only a little mass of possibilities. It was my teacher who unfolded and developed them.
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Courage returns as we gaze; when we see what has been, we doubt no more that it can be again.
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The man that stands upon a principle is the same calm, dauntless, self-possessed man under all circumstances.